The ROK government late last year ordered the military to remove mentions of Kim Jong Un from loudspeaker broadcasts into the North, the office of a South Korean lawmaker confirmed to NK News on Thursday.

Opposition politician Kim Hack-yong, chairman of the National Assembly’s defense committee, was verbally briefed this week by a senior military officer at the army’s psychological warfare division.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) reportedly made the order before December last year, though the office was unable to confirm the exact timing.

The South Korean military “received a guideline that suggested not to broadcast Kim Jong